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Birth
871 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 871- 871
- 871
- 871
871
| Centuries: |
8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: |
840s 850s 860s - 870s - 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: |
868 869 870 - 871 - 872 873 874 |
| 871 by topic
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| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
871 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
871
DCCCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita |
1624 |
| Armenian calendar |
320
ԹՎ ՅԻ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-973 – -972 |
| Berber calendar |
1821 |
| Buddhist calendar |
1415 |
| Burmese calendar |
233 |
| Byzantine calendar |
6379 – 6380 |
| Chinese calendar |
庚寅年十二月初七日
(3507/3567-12-7)
— to —
辛卯年十一月十六日
(3508/3568-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar |
587 – 588 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
863 – 864 |
| Hebrew calendar |
4631 – 4632 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
926 – 927 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
793 – 794 |
| - Kali Yuga |
3972 – 3973 |
| Holocene calendar |
10871 |
| Iranian calendar |
249 – 250 |
| Islamic calendar |
257 – 258 |
| Japanese calendar |
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| Korean calendar |
3204 |
| Thai solar calendar |
1414 |
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- Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others are:
- 31 December 870 - Englefield
- 4 January - Reading
- 8 January - Ashdown
- 22 January - Battle of Basing
- 22 March - Merton
- May - Battle of Wilton
- Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.
- Reading, England is occupied by the Norse.
- After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England.
- Rhodri Mawr ('the Great') of Gwynedd inherits Seisyllwig, thus uniting most of Wales under his rule.
- Louis II captures Bari, the headquarters of the Saracens.
- Alfred makes Winchester his capital.
- An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.
- Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.
- Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia.
- January 8 — King Bagsecg, Viking leader (at the Battle of Ashdown)
- April 23 — King Ethelred of Wessex (in battle)
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